Author: Boettger, O.
Title: Ad. Strubell's Konchylien aus Java I [AND] Ad. Strubell's Konchylien aus Java II und von den Molukken. [Complete].
Description: Frankfurt am Main, Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1890-1891. Two parts in one. 8vo (22.7 x 15.3 cm). 115 pp. [37; 78]; four [2; 2] lithographed plates. Brownish buckram. Spine with black gilt-lined label with gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A rarely seen complete and well-bound copy of an important contribution to Indo-Malayan malacology, by the German malacologist Oskar - or Oscar - Boettger (1844-1910). It consists of two offprints, from the society's Berichten, with their wrappers. The fine plates are by the author himself. The German zoologist (chiefly nematologist) Adolf Wilhelm Strubell (1861-1927) travelled in 1889 to Java and the Moluccas, collecting shells for his father, the malacologist Adolph - or Adolf - Bruno Strubell (1831-1902), who had one of the most important private shell collections in Germany (see the introduction by Boettger), and published on new molluscs. The younger Strubell must have had a keen eye for land snails, as many species were new or poorly known. Boettger gave three new species the epithet strubelli, dedicating one new species to Bruno, one to Adolf, and one undetermined. The second part concludes with an index to both parts. Copy of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020), with his stamp in the top margin of the first front wrapper. Light wear to the wrappers, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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